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TIIE OMAHA DAILY tMEi SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1902. friends posted, but these men seem tt be dalag just the opposite." Jlfw Men Com First. An official asked what courie would t pursued If the strlk was settled wlthlu ahort time and the old men Mreed t.' return to work; would th nonunion tnon who bare com to help the company oul ( tha pinch be retained, or would th?? be discharged to make room (or the olC abopmenT He aald: "When w hired them we promlaed thea men steady employment Just a long a the wanted It and were e atlsfactory, an1 we could not anK would not go back on thla promlae. No, elr, we are not In a position to eajr that we eould offer our old men work If they ahould agree to re turn. The new tnea come Drat now." A letter waa received at headquarter yesterday from the. executive committee of the car builder! enuring the officiate that the carmen have dropped all thought of dlseetlsfaetlon and are back at work In very ahop on the tyatem. A meeting of Mr. McKcen and members of the carmen's committee waa bald Wednesday st 'North Platte, at which the laat vestige of trouble waa Wiped Out. One feature of the new agreement between the carmen and the company which baa not been published la that wherever a car builder Is gettln, more for bis work than the new schedule provides bla par shall not be reduced to conform with the new schedule. Violence la' Threatened. It waa reported yesterday that when the laat squad of nonunion men were being es corted by'V'nlon Factfle guarda Into the yards Thursday evening picket from the atrlkera' ranka threatened to assault them and that on of the guarda la resisting the threatened attack drew, his revolver aa It to hoot. The atrlkera, It la said, persuaded blm to put up bU p'.stol and serious trouble U averted. Four of the nonunion men, however, followed the atrlkera off later. William Canada, chief of th aeeret aer vlc tor th Union Pacific mad this state ment yesterday regarding tbla affair: "It la not true that any guard drew bla pistol, I waa at tbe bead of the guarda and I did not a anyone take bla platof out of his pocket. , and they all told me they did not Of cours I could not ac all that went on In th rear, but I believe th men told m the truth. On of them did admit that he reached uuder bis coat to get a billy, but aays he did not draw bis platou "It Is our aim to avoid any trouble and we do not propoae to take th initiative at any time. The striker may hav thought the guard who reached under bla coat waa drawing bla revolver, but I think taey were mfetakon In aaying that he actually did pro due a pistol." Several of the atrlkera declare they could not hav been mistaken about tb pistol, which they profess to hav gated in tbe "muttl." Striker Will Celebrate. Machinists, blacksmiths and bollermakers held a Joint meeting yesterday at Labor Tempi and decided to engage the first pub lic demonstration of tbelr atrtke July 29. Every organised' labor man in Omaha will be asked to Join In thla demonstration, which will consist of a atreet parade. Dan cer a bearing Inscriptions of atrlkera' mot toes and various other such meana will be employed to display th spirit of tbe atrlk era. On tbe day following the striker will select two bae ball teams from their ranka and a gam will be played on aome local diamond. 8. H. Oraoe, executive committeeman for tb machinists, baa received numerou offers from local machlntata lodges In Kansas and Nebraaka tendering financial aupport to the atrlkera. These offer hav Com unsolle ited, Mr. Ores aey. Tb, grand lodge haa net thus far, mad financial provision for helper who are on a strike, ajad tnes vol untary contributions wlU .be applied In this direction until tb grand lodge takes action upon tbe matter, which. .will be don before long. It la laid. .'.".' An official aald that the blacksmiths at North Platta had been laboring under the Impression that they wer tbe only .-one on the system at work' and to disprove this to tbem th Union Pacific aent a dele gation from tb North Piatt shops to Cheyenne and Evanston, where tb men could at tor themselves that they jwero not alone In temalnlng in the employ of the company. Y ' ' "Thla aatlafied them." h aald, "and now everything ' Is , running along smoothly there." Three men wer employed In Omaha Thursday and aent by th Union Pacific to Cheyenne tq go to work In th shops there. Others wer employed and aent 'to other place on the road. These men are said to be skilled workmen.... Official a this morning aald positively that there waa no proposition or negotiations for a settlement of tha- strike pending between the men and the oompany and that so far as th company waa conoerned hone was In contemplation. ." A. carload of .nonunion men will arrive em time today from tb Twin Cities to g to work tor th Union Pacific Tbey ar xpeeted In this morning on th North western train, which arrive at tAO. Tb strikers say tbey will glv . them a warm welcome. Tbey Intend to be at th depot when th Mlnncsotaas get In. Bl. "VT. Qrova. Th ham must appear on every bos of th geauln Laxatlv Bromo-Qulnlng Tab let, tba remedy that cures a cold Is one day. ti tents. OSCAR RECOGNIZES AMERICANS King- Gives Andtenee to Officers at , ...V'alted States War Ships at Christian!. 'CHRISTIAN! Aj Norway. July 18. Rear Admiral Arent 8. , Crownlnshleld, eom-mander-ln-chlef of th European atatlon; Captain O. A. Converse of tbe United Btatea flagship. Illinois. Captain J. E. Craig of th cruiser Albany, ' Captain J. ' H. Dayton of th cruiser Chicago and Captain A. Walker ef th cruiser Ban Francisco wer received In audlenc sod bad luncheon with King . Oscar today. Premiers Hold Another . Confereae. LONDON, July It. Aaother eooferene of tb colonial premier wss held today at th Colonial offlc. bat beyond a desulrry discussion if th yeneral trad relations of th empire, nothing was don. T!u ad rantgea and disadvantages of nret-rjilal tariffs war discussed Informs II,-, but the formulation of concrete propoaals was de ferred until a future occasion. Humors Tbey take possession of the body, and are Lords of W I rule. Tbey are attended by pimples, bolls, tba Itching tetter, salt rheum, and otber co. taneous eruptions; by feelings of weakness, languor, general debility and what not. They cause more suQering than anything alse. Health, Strength, Peace and Pleasur require their expulsion, and thla la posi tively effected,. according to thousands of grateful testimonials, by . Hood's Sarsftparilla Which radically and permanently drives ttiutn out and, buiMs up tue whole tyatem. TW't Feuiif rojfau Uut tuifio (eniuttj; itiiget, tuvt baHlsUt) OsssMM -ltVMl las tmW Uy, tUU 4 Net- FARMERS LOSE MILLIONS Lowlands Hong Mississippi Eitar Flooded and Orops Art Snini INDICATIONS OF STILL HIGHER WATER Farmers Between Keokak an Han nibal Will Las Year'a Werk tor Corn Is Mee an Wheat Is la th Shock. KEOKUK, la,, July 18. Heavy rains in oentral Iowa yesterday and today ar send- log a flood down, upon prosperous Missouri farmers which will ruin many of, them, aud cause losses, aggregatlB at a eonaervatlv estimate, ft. BOO. 000. There seems to be no hop tonight for the country "beyond the Mississippi ' river and Its Missouri bluffs between Keokuk and Hannibal, 309 square miles, mostly In corn, and thousands of acres of. wheat In the "shock. Tha flood bad touched the danger. Use the first of the week and had began , to recede when heavy floods started again in the Des Moines, Skunk and Iowa rivers. With a stag In th Dear Moines river only three feet below the 'tops of tbe great, levees the river began . to ' ris three Inches an hour at its mouth ber today. Tbe factor of aafety waa : wiped out this afternoon. A rise of one and a half feet this morning at Ottawa, and a further rla throughout lta length below tbe capital city was pre vented from' running out freely by a ris of a foot snd S half at Davenport laat night, Increasing and coming down rapidly. Tbls afternoon th obaerver of tbe weather bureau at Keokuk aent telegraphic warnings to all polnta south to prepare for danger. The creat Is expected her Saturday or Sunday. Tbe Egyptian levee, which stood tb flood Juat receding after strenuous efforta to hold It, Including tb destruction of farm bouse to secure lum ber for strengthening the dike, is only slightly above the water now and the com ing flood In tbe Des Moines will certainly top It. This will let tb water Into hun dreds of sauare miles, lncludlnc the town of Alexandria, Mo.' The Inhabitants tfier ar preparing for an overflow of th river. Farmer Lose Year's Work. Th corn crop In the flooded district Is all made and wheat la in the ahock, and a a result the farmers will lose all their year's work. Grain men say the foregoing est! mate of value la too low and put th figure of tbe loss from th overflow at near $4,- OC0.C0O between Keokuk and Hannibal. It Is believed th Illinois levees will hold snd the damage there la likely to be only (20,004 to $30,000 between Keokuk and Qulney. Heavy rains are reported In 'southeastern Iowa today and tonight there ar Indies tlons of still higher water. Lowland farm era, rlvermen and the weather burean ob server alike predlet tha greatest damage ever known from flood on the tipper river, Reporta late tbls evening show tremen dous ralna along the Des Molnea river and tributaries. Six Inches " at Cor yd on and nearly that much at Ottumwa. Ralna all over this section continue tonight, with two Inches ss a general minimum rainfall, and many reporting five tncbea. These ralna will reach the lower -river and flooded die trlct by Sunday and there will be a still further rise and devastation. Both th Des Moines and Mississippi rivers are rising faater aa night progresses. Lat reports shows that half the country for a distance of thirty miles hetween Lagrang snd Han nibal was already under water . long before tb crest of tbe Hood arrived. ' I . Flood Crowe Alarming.. , HANNIBAL, Mo., July If. Th flood conditions on Bay Island snd th bottom lands between Hannibal and West Qutncy are alarming. Bay Island contatna about 10,000 acres of cultivated land, upon which were the finest crop ef wheat and corn, but the entire island Is now submerged except a few elevated spots, to th depth of from on to six feet. It Is believed that the entire crop of eorn Is ruined and th wheat, which waa In ahock, la a total Joss. The estimated loas on thla island alone Is 125,000. In fact, the whole area of land from the island to West Qulney is one ' continuous lake and hardly a dry apot la to be found. Tb tag of th river tonight Is fourteen feet and six Inches, on toot and six Inches above tb danger line. Tbe river ha continued to rlae slowly al) day and, ac cording to the official report sent out by the Weather bureau, there ia to be a fur ther rla of two feet, which Will Inundate all the lowlands In th Mississippi bottom and will even test th Snl levee. Farmers have been busy for the laat three days getting' their stock off the bottoms, snd driving it to th highlands. They hav about abandoned all their crops and many of ths renters hav loat every thing. Tbe damage by the high water cannot be estimated, but It will probably reaoh 1500,. 000. According to telegraph reports, there were heavy rains today at Dubuque and Davenport and tonight It is raining In Hannibal. Des Moines Gets Mors Rain. DES MOINES. July II. (Special.) Laat night a total of 1.17 Inches of rain fell In Des Moines and aoma rain fall during ths day. This rain has retarded ths falling of th rivers of this part of th state and tb water Is still very high. It haa been neces- eai y for ten daya to keep portabl putnpa at work at several of. tha business housea In th city to keep tb. cellars clear of water. Th filthy condition of that part ef Des Moines which was flooded has become suck that ths city officials hav forbidden residents to return to their homes until there is some cleaning up. Th constant rains retard thla werk and ar causing dis tress. The Board of Supervisors today al lowed a bill la tbe sum of $780 for food furnished flood Sufferers last week. EDDTVILLE, la., July 18. (Special ) Four and a half Incbea ef rals fell her laat night, amounting almost t a cloudburst. It raised tbe Dee Molnea river eighteen Inches and it continued to ris all forenoon at the rat of two Inchea an hour. At 10 o'clock It waa within a tew Inches of th top of tb leve and it it overflow this it will flood th town. , . . . OTTUMWA. Ia.. July II. (6peclal.) Th Des Moines river ha risen two and one half feet sine midnight. Four snd a quar tr inches ef rain fall within twenty-four hours. Traffio on th- Burllngtea west of the city haa been atopped by th flood. BURUNOTON. Ia., July 18. Advices Just received report th breaking of th Tallow Spring dam north of her. Fifteen hun dred acre hav beea submerged. Th water la th hlgheat In years. At Columbua Junction tha recent ralna aent the Iowa and Cedar rlvera up again, ruining oata that war being harvested and hundreds of sere of corn. Re Oak Flsodea. RED OAK, Ia.. July is.(8peclal.) The heaviest rain of the seaaos visited thla aectlon laat night. It began raining about o'clock and by 10:30 Red Oak creek, wbfch flowa through th town, was a raging torrent. Th channel waa too email to carry the great body of water, which over, owed Into the town, making the streets run like rivers, filling cellars and washing away wooden sidewalks. At L D. Aahby'a lumber yard a tar t 11m became alacked, aettlng th sheds oa fir a, and tb fir de partment was called out, Tb damage la lb city will run Into tb hundreds of dollars. Andrew Spencer, a young man, had S nar row escape from drowning. A number of bridges wer either washed out or mad Impassable. The Nlshnabotna river rose rapidly dur ing this forenoon until It was more than half a mil wide, and Is slmoat as high as It waa a week ago. Mara Dasnaare flesalt ta BrtOes. IOWA FALLS, la., July 11 (Sneclal.l- Th Board of Supervisor were In ths city last even.sg, having just completed an in spection of the damaged bridges of the county. It finds that about forty of the county bridges faav been either washed out or so badly ' damaged by the heavy ralna of the last few weeks that recon struction will be necessary and will in volve th expenditure of thousands of dol- Jars. No part of the county has escaped damage and It will take until late In the Tall to put the bridges snd approaches In ? condition. Hall Works Havoc with Crops. WEBSTER C1TT, la., July IS. (Special Telegram.) A destructive storm of hall visited a portion of the farming district south of this city laat night. Hailstones as large as walnuts tell. Corn was stripped of its leaves and small grain pounded down. In tbe stricken district tbe storm lasted twenty minutes and at its' conclu sion tbe ground was white with hailstones. It Is believed that cropa In this district cannot aurvlve. CARROLL, la., July 18. (Special.) The 10-year-old daughter of Oeorge Simons, who resides about five miles east, waa In stantly killed by lightning yesterday morn ing. The sky waa clear here, but real denta of this city heard a loud clap 'of thunder about that time. JOLIET. III.. July 18. A rainfall of nearly four Inches last blgbt snd todsy haa caused another flood In Jollet, overflowing streets and yarda adjacent to Spring and Hickory creeks, snd creating alarm among hundreds of families. Several manufactur ing plants have been compelled to close. LINCOLN, nr., July 18. This ctty and vi cinity were visited by a cloudburst tbls aft ernoon. Streets,' cellars snd basements in stores were flooded. Considerable damage was don by hall. TORNADO SWEEPS VILLAGE Math Damage Is Wroaght at Moflltta Tllle, Kew York, by Cyclone. - PLATTSBURO, N. T., July 18. A tor nado swept off Mofflttsvtll. a small vil lage near Dsnnemors, in Clinton county, last night, destroying a starch factory, a carding mill, th Chateaugay Or and Iron company'a aawmlll and other property, The same storm sunk a steam launch In Upper Chateaugay lake belonging to Beth Tbomaa, th well-known clock manufae turer of Connecticut, and destroyed hi fine camp and boathouse on the same lake, The etorm aleo demolished the fine cot tage owned by Frank Sawyer of Chicago, aeverely injuring on man. CHESTERVILLE. Ont., Julr 18. A cy clone of great fury passed within a mil of this town today and everything In It path, about sixty, rods In width, was d atroyed. The co fin try presents a scene of devastation. Dwelling are overturned and dead cattle ar lying at nearly every farm. Several peraons wer killed and a number Injured. The damage will exceed $200,000, BAD CLOUDBURST IN KANSAS Families at PI per ' Are "re " to Leave Home While. Their ..Stock Is Drowned. KANSAS CITT, July 18. A downpour of rain, amounting almoat to a cloudburst, at Piper, Kan., ten miles west of here, tonight, csused the creeks In that vicinity to overflow tbelr banks and flood the sur rounding country, Many farmers, with their families, wer forced to abandon their homea, leaving their hoss and poultry to drown. One house wss. washed from Its foundation. The occupant bad moved out, but Frank Carter, a neighbor, who entered the house for shelter, barely aaved his life by Jump Ing out of a window before the house crashed Into a bridge. Tbe tracks of the Kanaaa City Leavenworth Electric line ar under two feet of water for a quarter of a mils. Storm Sweeps Denver. DENVER, July 18. This city waa awept by an unusual windstorm anoui i ocioca today,' followed by a drenching rain. Th winil Mow st tha rats ef fortv-two mtlea an hour from the northweat from 1:45 to 1:60 o'clock. Th fall of rain was half an tnrh. w. P. Swallows, a nromtnent mer chant and postmaster at Kokomo, Colo., was instantly killed there cy a siroae oi lightning today. NAME THE NEW BATTLESHIPS Knvy Department Makes Arranse ' meats for Constrnetlon t Vessels. WASHINOTON, July 18. Ths Navy de partment today announced that the two battleahlpa to bs built under tbe authority of tb ,1a st naval appropriation bill ar to be named Louisiana and Connecticut, and th two cruiser Tennessee and Washing ton. The battleship to be built at the New fork yard Is to bs Connecticut, Th battleship, will cost $4,111,000 and th cruisers $4,269,000 each. Th tugs author lied by tbe act ar to be built, on at th Mar Island yard and tb other at Boston. Admiral Bowles has prepared an elabor ate plan for keeping th accounts In con nectlon with the . coat of Connecticut .In such order that when It la finished com parisons can b. mad between tb re spective coat of building ships in govern ment snd private yards. Inaaa Delegnto lajared at Denver. DENVER. Jul 18 P. J.'Enrlght. a dele gate to the Hibernian convention from Syracuse, N. Y.. attempted to lower him self from a second-story window in ths Tol teo building with a cord, which broke, and he fell to the alley below, breaking his right leg. H was taken to St. Joseph's hospital. It waa feared that Mr. Enright hud sustained Internal Injuries, but the at tending physicians say that he la not eerl oualy hurt. Mr, Enrlght's friends say that he waa Buffering from temporary insanity and Imagined be was being pursued by enemies. ' Injured In nn Explosion. BOSTON. July 1. An explosion of swer gas which had permeated the cellar of a house In the Jamaica district wrecked that dwelling and the next one and caused In Jury to severs! persons this sfternoon. The seriously Injured are Emma Morgan. M yeara old, and Emily Houston, 26 year old. Mrs. Peary to Join Relief Steamer. PORTLAND. Me.. July 18 Mrs. Robert F. Peary and her daughter, accompanied by Herbert L. Hrl'1rma of the Arctic club of Ne York, lrt her today for Syd ney. C. B where they will join the Peary relief etc jner Windsor. Robber Trc Discovered. MELBOURNE, July M.-In view of the shortase of the rubber supply the an nouncement la made of an important dis covery of India rubber and gut la percha trees In German New Guinea. Bosoma SJa Cor. No ray. Tour druggist will refund your money if f AZO OINTMENT falls to cur Ringworm. Tetter, Old Ulcers and Sores, Pimple and Blackheads en tb face, and all skin dis eases, 60 cents. FLOOD STRIKES PLATTSMOUTR Wattr Bushed Through Business 8trtts and Pom Comidertbls Damags. T0SS ESTIMATED AT FIFTY THOUSAND Choking of Chloosro Areas tewer Send Stream Tare Feet Deep . Over th Sarfae of th Pavements. t FLATT8MOTJTH, Neb., July IS (Special Tdegram.) The choking of the Waahlngton avenue sewer last evening resulted In dam age rtugbly ea:lma'.ed at $"0,000. Rain tell In torrents from ( o'clock until 8 o'clock and there wss a considerable fall all through the night. Tbe precipitation for thole first two hours Is thought to have been at least five Inches, which la more than tell when Plattemouth had Its previous great deluge oh July , I89i On that occasion both tbe Washington avenue sewer shd tb Chicago avenue sewer choked, but this time th Chi cago avenue sewer, remained open. Other wise the, loss would havs been much greater. Plattsmoutb nestles, among bllla, and Main street, from Sixth to First street, the river front, Is practically a valley or draw. Th two avenues motioned eome down from th heights at angles and the water they carried struck Sixth street at a tangent, rushing past the side street that are the proper extension of th avenues; to gush down Main atreet and the alleys In lta rear. The flow on Chicago avenue was email be cause lta sewer, meaaurlns 8x8 feet, re- malned open at 'the mouth on Seventh street and carried most of th flood. But th Washington avenue aewer clogged with portlona of outhouse from the heights and the consequence waa that all the drainage from the hills on that side swept along on the surface of th ave nue paving. There was three feet of water on th avenue and Main street and Dr. Stewart Livingstone and Ben Elson were carried three blocks on a section of dis lodged sidewalk. The brick walks wer washed up and ths bricks scattered from 8ixth street to First. Estimate of Loss Dlfflcnlt. Accurate estimating of losses at tbls time is difficult, but those who suffered are willing to make rough guesses. Th flood first washed out th rear basement wall , of Robert Sherwood's shoe store building and Its. floor In the rear part sagged four feet Into th cellar. Ths dam age to the building alone waa perhaps $1,000. Mr. 8herwood owns It. Ths stock loss Is guessed as another $1,000. The foundation of the wall dividing the fruit and confection store of John Schlsp pacaase and the stationery and toy store of Oeorge B. Lenhoff was undermined and a large aectlon of th ten-Inch wall, which waa brick, toppled over onto the con tec tlonerV stock, carrying It and the floor Into th flooded cellar. Immediately tb floor of th atatlonery store gave way and aank with the atock. V. V. Leonard, a pho tographer, with, apartments on tba upper floor, owned ths double building and suf fered at least $2,000 damage.' Th confection store waa somewhat ele gantly furnished for Ice cream trade, and th lose wilt not be known until It I seen bow much ef the' $8,600 worth of fixture were apared, but the lbsa Is estimated at $2,500. The Lenhotf stock -we valued at about $4,000, but ipart can be aaved. Th water filled the cellar under tb dry goods store t Wflllam Herold dc Son, wet ttn iheir st'areaV soddi. and 'roee -elahtoeh Inches onihesMr fioer. Other baaemonts and floors , deluged. wee, those of tho First National .Jjank, Warri Thompson's sajoon, Henry Oerng's, .drug stoo,Fre4.Egenberg's saloon, . A, W Atwood'adrug store,, J.. R. Cox's hardware, store, the IT. J. Morgan and Weacott clothing stores, with 'barber' ahop below, tha Schlits aaloon managed by Hans Ooos, Artie Help's stationery store, Henry Weckbach's grocery, Otto Bookmyer's cigar and tobacco bouse. Lamber .Yard Swept Away. Ths Cass County Democrat was deluged snd John Waterman's lumber yard sepa rated Into rafta. Ed Fitzgerald had to res cue his twenty livery horses from fonr feet of wster and the Burlington shop on Lin coln avenue suffered, particularly in the machinery department. Tb ga plant, now In tb hand of a re ceiver, was flooded and tbe lights went out within an hour or so after ths ram began falling.. It Is not thought that ths damage will be great. Havoo Wronsrht at Cedar Creek, CEDAR CREEK, Neb.. July 18. (Special Telegram,) Laat nlgbt a heavy electric and rainstorm was experienced her. Over our Inches of rain falling. Small streams Were over their banks and most Of th small bridges washed away. Heavy damage will b entailed to wheat In th ahock and oata that ars not cut. Ths large dam at Atwoods ss Newell's fish pond wss washed awsy and millions of the flnnv tribe were swent to Platte river. This pond waa nicely stocked with gam flah. Tb B. M.. train was two hours lats on account of washouts along their line. A large barn belonging to Charles Fstser three and a halt mires south from here. waa struck by lightning and barn and con' tents all destroyed, but partly insured. WEEPINO WATER. Neb., July IS. (Spe cial.) A vary heavy rain and severs eleo- DAVID AND GOLIATH. A Little Shot Pat Old Klnsr Coffee Oat ot Easiness. When tnedlotn falls, they sometimes send sick people away to another climate for their health. Sometimes th climate does It, but mors often they stumbl oa tb proper food to take, and then get welt A lady In San Diego ' telle of a friend who left her home each December, for th paat two winters, to go to Cal. for ber health. She says: "Almoat all of her time waa apent In vlaltlag tb doctor and sitting In a big chair and wateblng tbs clock to not th time for her next doe of medicine. Nervousness was her prin cipal trouble, and, with others of kindred nature, mad life for her a burden. On the oecaalon of her laat visit, 1 begged her to glv up the us of coffee and us Postum Coffee. 8h replied that she could not stop coffee. 1 ssld no mors at tbe time, but the next morning at break fast, t paaaed her a fragrant, ateamlng cup of Poatum, making It as It should be made. After that, I bad no more trouble, and my friend drank no more coffee. But the most surprising pert of th experience waa tb change that soon cam over her. We began to notic It within leaa than a week. In lea than a month ber ner vousness had left her, and in three month she was a new woman In face, figure and health. I had not dared to hops for so much benefit, slthough I had bee greatly benefited myaelf by Postum, but eofte to ar system was simply poisonous, snd I believe this Is the eaae with many others. She returned to bar home la December, and waa married within less than two mouths sfter. 8h never falla to glv credit to Poatum for her health or thanka to m for teaching her to make It prop erly, and well she marl for Postum has don for her what travel, doctor and med icine failed to do." Nam given by Pos tum Co., Battl Creek, Mich, trlcal storm visited tbls place laat night. Mghtnlng struck the Methodist church here, doing slight damage, and shocking the Janitor, I'de Bokelman. Ths Catholic church, six miles north ot town, was struck snd burned. The Missouri Pacific railway had another washout st Wyoming, undermining the roadbed ten feet deep, snd th section men havs all been called out to repair the damage. This necessitated th main line train to Omaha to com through Auburn, Avoca, to Weeping Water. Th Weeping Water Is running very high. About three Inches of rain fell. Oakland is Storm Swept. OAKLAND, Neb.. July 18. (Special.) Oakland snd vicinity wer vtalted by one of the most terrific rains ever known here Thursday afternoon. It began to rain at 1:80 p. m. and In fifteen mlnutea the main atreet was a river. Cellars are flooded and atl the drawe and stream ars full and out of tbelr banks. Outbuildings snd hog pens were swept away with their contenta. Chickens and hog were drowned and small grain will doubtless suffer extensively. PAPILUON, Neb., July 18. (8peclal.) After a week ot hot, dry weather, another heavy rain fell here last tight. Over an Inch of water fell. The Papplo creek, for the fifth time this summer, I on tbe boom snd still raising. The Papllllon Tlmea of fice was sgaln flooded and pumps bad to bo worked all night, as the water was run ning In fast, FREMONT, Neb., July 18. (Special.) Be tween yesterday noon and 7 o'clock this morning 1.98 Inches of rain fell, and as it rained some this forenoon -the precipitation for th twenty-four hour will exceed two Inchea. Everything la thoroughly soaked and all creeka and small streams ars run ning full. BEATRICE, Neb.. July 18. (Special Tel egram.) According to the government rain gauge 1.85 Inches of water fell here last night. The river has risen two feet today. Heavy Rainfall at Schnyler. SCHUYLER, Neb., July 18. (Special.) Two Inches ot rain fell hers yeaterday aft ernoon and last night, again thoroughly soaking fields, grain and all els exposed that wer beginning to dry out. Shell creek Is within ten Inches tf aa high a during other hard rains, and the bottoms again all under water, which will cauee destruction of hundreds of acrrs of eorn that otherwise would come out, atl right. YORK, Neb., July 18. (Special.) Another heavy rain foil all over York county, com mencing yeater'ay afternoon about 6 o'clock. and at York there waa 1.5 Inches of rainfall. Reports from other points in tb county ar 1 to 4 Inches. This last rain will cause some damage to the crops. Quit an acre age of oats that promised, to yield sixty to 100 bushels to the acre are down thla morn ing. Farmer ar complaining of rust. All ot the winter wheat, of Which there is about SO per cent of ths culttvsted acreage ot York county, has been cut and shocked and only about 6 per Cent haa been stacked. Ow ing to th paat excessive rains about 80 per cent ot tbe corn acreage of York county Is weedy. Quito a large acreage of timothy, blue grass and alfalfa was cut yesterday lu this county snd all of It received a soaking. It will cause considerable loas to farmers. Delnc at Kearney. KEARNEY, Neb., July 18. (Special Tel egram.) Kearney and vicinity was delugel by rain laat night, which was very heavy, but did little damage except to the oato. Nearly all , the wheat waa harveated, so It did littlo injury, only in blowing down th shocks, .Tho corn Is In prim con dition and the farmers aro going through It the last time. ',' "- WEST POINT, J4eb.,' July 18.-(Speclal.) Another very, heavy rain fell during last night and this morning over. this section. Oreat, damage was done to wheat and oats, which,' being so heavy, are badly lodged. Considerable hay Is spoiled, the One weather ot tbs last few days having In duced farmers to do much cutting. '. Har vest of wheat and oata will commence on Monday If the weather ia favorable. GIBBON, Neb., July 18. (Special.) Two Incbea of rain fell her laat night. Corn Is making a phenomenal growth. Oats are turning out to be tha beat crop in years. Wheat and ry ar ready to thresh, but continued rain delaya work. No serious damage has been don yet, but it soon will be unless the rain stops. GENEVA, Neb.. . July 18. (Special.) Rain fell last night after almost a week ot warm, dry weather. Fully 1.68 Inches of water fell, accompanied by much thun der and lightning. - Heaviest Rain This Year. NEBRASKA CITY. Neb.. July 18. (Spec ial. )-rThe rain last night was the heaviest that up to this time ha been recorded this year, nearly four Inches of water be ing precipitated. Tb Missouri Pacific track north of th city slipped again and aank the track be tween ten and fifteen feet. South and west of this city tho damage was very 'heavy, while north the lightning is ssld to havs don considerable damage. . LOUISVILLE, Neb., July 18. (Special.) During the storm at 8:30 last evening tbe Catholic church, tbre miles southeast of this place, was struck by lightning. It took fir snd burned to ths ground. The heavy wind and rain haa dons considerable damage to tb small grain of tbla vicinity not yet barveated. Th barn of Charles Fetser, three mile Southeast, waa alao struck by lightning and waa conaumed. All stock wss saved. Tba barn was insured. . Hall and Rain mt Fnlrbnry. FAIRBURY. Neb., July 18. (Special.) During laat Blgbt 1.48 Inches of rain fell, accompanied by hall and a aever eleotrlo storm. No damage is reported except that wheat and oats In shock Injured by previous rains will In som Instances be a total loss. No railroad trains wer run after midnight NEHAWKA, Neb., July 18. (Special.) A rain of 1.60 Inches foil last bight, stop ping all barveatlng and threshing. The grain is all cut except oats. Oata are very heavy and badly lodged and considerably rusted. Early potatoes bavs not yielded so heavy for thirty years. Quits a number ot farmers havs threshed winter wheat and report It turning out from twenty to thirty flv buahela per acts and the quality very fine, much of It testing slxty-on pound th bushel. TRENTON. Neb., July 18. (Special Tele gram.) Yeaterday evening this vicinity was visited by a wind snd dusts torra, fol lowed by a heavy rain snd som hall. Tb precipitation waa over tbre inches, mak ing nearly elevon Inch for tb month. No damage haa been reported from the storm. THREE KILLED IN A WRECK Freight Train Como Together with Fatal Resalts and Slaty Cara Ar Barnod. RHINELANDER, Wla., July IS. In a headend collision of freight trains on the Minneapolis. St. Paul A Bault St. Marie road thla afternoon, Charles Johnson and William Raymond, engineer, and J. A. Andereoa, fireman, wer killed, and Frank Thorpe, a brakeinan, waa aerioualy Injured. Tb wreck occurred two mile west ot Pembin. Th two tralna crashed together St full speed. Sixty cars heavily loaded went into g ditch and, catching fire, wer consumed. Th men )ev families st Gladstone, Mich. HEAR GAYNOR-GREENE CASE Proceeding' Consist Largely In Fll tnsr of Affidavits and Contra-Affidavit. QUEBEC, July 18. Today s proceedings in the Oaynor-Greene case consisted prin cipally In th filing of affidavits and con-tra-affldavlta, and it aaa only a ahort time before the adjournment of the court that Mr. Master, for th prosecution, com menced hla argument on his motion to quash the habeas corpus wrlta Issued by Judge Caron on June 20 and 21 last. Th proceedings were opened by Mr. Tascbereau, counsel to tbe prisoners, who produced affidavits ot Benjamin Greene, to the effect that on May 17 Mr. Erwln called oa him at the Windsor hotel, Montreal, when Erwln said to Greene: "It you will pay $500,000 to settle the whole matter, I will go at once to Washington and advlae lis acceptance." Green replied- that he could not' stand that, becauae ho had not money cnougli to pay his half ot the amount, but that Erwln said: "Gaynor haa enough; I don't know where It la, but be has it." To wblch Greene replied: "If you will say $200,000, I will talk with Colonel Gaynor about It." Erwln. replied, the affidavit continued: "That will not be enough. Greene then added: "What do you think of $300,000?" He said: "I don't think that Is enough, but .you don't want to go through the rest ot your life hunted wherever you go, and you must remember that If you t extradited and you ar In Georgia It will be too lats to make a set tlement." ' Green finally replied: "Well, anyway, I don't see how we can pay any money, be cauae that would be an admission on our part that w have received money wrong fully; that we have not done." Greene swore that this talk of aettU- ment tor $500,000 referred to tbe criminal proceedings against them and not to any civil claim. Thla affidavit was supported by another from Mrs. J. F. Gaynor. - Mr. McMaster read an affidavit, signed by Marlon Erwln, completely denying the allegations contained in the affidavits ot Mr. Greene and Mrs. Gaynor. Regarding tho interview between Greene and himself, Mr. Erwln stated that on hla return to his room pn the afternoon of May 17 be found a note there, in which he recognized the handwriting ot B.' D. Greene, which note waa aa follows: "If you can call to see me at any time today you will do me a great favor." The original of this note Is In the posses sion of Mr. Erwln and waa shown to Judge Caron. . ' ' . In response to that request he had gone to Greene's room and the latter opened th conversation by saying that while he knew that Erwln had been prosecuting blm vig orously for over 'two yeara, he wanted to thank him for having alwaya treated him with, personal consideration. He then aatd that if the extradition proceedings at Mon treal proceeded for any length of time It was probable he might desire to give bond. Erwln'a affidavit oontlnued in substance: "I called bla attention to the fact that be and Gaynor had already forfeited bonds In tbe sum of $400,000. He replied that he had left the United States because he had re solved never to be put In Jail as a convict; that be had come to Canada with the ex pectation -that after a year or two bis friends In the United States could effect a Settlement of the civil claims ot the government- against blm and then he could probably obtain a -dismissal ot tb criminal prorecutlon. He said that he bad not given, hla personal word that he would not run off 'from tbe. prosecution In Georgia, but he would pledge me bis 'word ot honor that If f "would, agree; to his giving 'bond before, judge -La.Fqntalne he would not run off.' He then .referred, to tho fact that th government had already tied up .by civil proceedings. half. a. million dollars of assets of what the. government claimed waa O. M. Carter's share in 'the fraud and asked me what waa .tb exact amount tbe government claimed that be and John F. Gaynor had re ceived aa tbelr share. I replied that we claimed that he and Gaynor had received $1,400,000 as tbelr shares In the fraud. He replied that he waa In no position and had not sufficient means to meet such a claim, but that be and Gaynor would be willing to pay tbe government $300,000 in settlement of tbe entire litigation, .to include tbe $80,000 Claimed on ' forfeited recognlxanoe." WILL REST JH ARLINGTON Remains ot Captain William Wagner Relalnger 111 Be Interred In Military Cemetery. : ' ' WASHINGTON, July 18. The Navy de partment today received confirmation of tbe news of tbe death of Captain William Wagner Relsingcr, who waa In command of the cruiser Philadelphia when it .left Panama and who died of Panama fever oh th way to Ban Francisco. No further details have' been received. Captain Rels fnger. according to reporta received by tbe family bore, bad not been In particular good health during his stay on tha Isthmus. 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